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Blackwater: ¿La subida del mundo? s la mayoría del ejército de gran alcance del mercenario
Domingo 19 de agosto de 2007
Por Jeremy Scahill Blackwater es una compañía privada que hace el trabajo sucio para América en varias guerras, abrigo y ésos que sabemos sobre todos demasiado bien. ¿Comenzó hace solamente 10 años como una clase de paintball alegre y gama que tiraba en el gran pantano triste de Carolina del Norte, pero actualmente tiene unos 20.000 mercenarios en sus libros (? putas de la guerra?), no mencionar un manojo entero de avión cuasi-militar, una base militar, porciones y porciones de armas y de conexiones con exacto la gente adecuada. Fue traído en existencia por Erik Príncipe, algo defensor católico del derecho-de-centro que graniza de una dinastía singular unlikable, asqueroso-rica de Michigan. ¿El príncipe tiene el oído de la casa blanca y su firma se ha recompensado con un montón de extraordinario lucrativo ninguno-hizo una oferta los contratos para el trabajo de la seguridad adentro, por ejemplo, Iraq? ¿dónde Blackwater? la mayoría de la tarea prominente de s era ocuparse del L idiota y fanático Paul Bremer III durante su término como administrador de los E.E.U.U. inmediatamente después de la guerra. Desafortunadamente, usted puede ser que se sienta, hicieron su trabajo algo bien en este respeto, y Bremer sobrevivió su término de la oficina. A otra parte, sin embargo, Blackwater era visible catastrófico; era cuatro de sus hombres que, durante una salida singular poco aconsejable adentro unquelled Fallujah, encontrado ellos mismos ambushed, machine-gunned y cortó a los pedacitos de la manera más bestial de los locals inflamados. ¿Lanzaron con una honda a sus cuerpos desmembrados sobre los cables de transmisión en un puente en la ciudad? y su asesinato traído represalias furiosas y mortales de los militares de los E.E.U.U., ayudados de nuevo por más empleados de Blackwater. Jeremy Scahill, un periodista de una cierta reputación, no es absolutamente seguro si él culpa Blackwater por ser incompetente y negligente en enviar a estos hombres a cuál era muerte casi cierta, o para jugar un juego lejos más oscuro y (en cahoots con el régimen de Bush) con eficacia dirigir una atrocidad a la cual América no tenía ninguna opción pero responder de la manera más rigurosa. Esto es sintomático de un problema recurrente a través del libro de otra manera meticuloso investigado y fascinador esto: estamos en ninguna duda en cuanto a de donde el autor viene, político, y su disposición del peacenik tuerce a veces su juicio. Given the chance, Scahill would blame Bush and Blackwater for every conceivable crime, all the time (for both gross incompetence and the most astonishing Machiavellian cunning, for example), when a less partial observer might suspect such qualities to be mutually exclusive. Also, and I write as someone who thought the war and occupation of Iraq woefully misguided and criminal, Scahill seems to have much more sympathy for the vicious and medieval Islamists of Fallujah who wish to murder every American on sight than he does for his own people, who want to kill Iraqis only when they themselves are under attack. Typical of the tenor of this book is the author?s pious opprobrium when a Blackwater soldier, alone under fire on three sides from 1,200 heavily armed and enraged Iraqis, dares issue the unfortunate exclamation ?nigger!?. This undoubted contravention of etiquette merits a couple of pages of concentrated hand-wringing. Appalling though it might seem to Scahill, Blackwater?s mercenary soldiers do not always behave in the manner of Polly Toynbee. They instead comprise macho retired US grunts, former Pinochet guardsmen, pensioned-off members of the Israeli Defence Force, white South African soldiers, cheap-as-chips Colombians and so on. The armed mercenary business is of a distinctly rightish political hue, I think it?s fair to say ? and Scahill spends far too long belabouring the point. Some Blackwater executive doesn?t have much time for homosexuals or abortionists ? no, you?re kidding? There are bigger issues here and Scahill, good journalist that he is, does eventually get on to them. First and foremost is Blackwater?s apparently cavalier attitude towards its employees and its utter lack of accountability. Scahill also does a fine job tying the firm, financially and politically, to the current Bush administration ? despite Prince?s considered view that George W is a lily-livered liberal, all too soft on queers and commies. The contracts roll in, usually without competition, and Blackwater cleans up, bending the rules of engagement by occasionally using what is euphemistically described as ?unapproved ammunition?, its euphemistically named contractors swanning around Baghdad and Fallujah armed to the teeth, wearing wraparound mirror shades, driving expensive SUVs. Clearly, though, they love their work for the excitement, comparatively high wages and other sundry spin-offs: ?The chicks dig it,? one cheerful Neanderthal mercenary proclaims of his high-risk, highly paid work. Scahill also discovers Blackwater ?contractors? setting up bases in former Russian secret-service headquarters in Georgia and Azerbaijan, their guns pointed in two directions: towards Russia, towards Iran. Ready for the next conflagration. There?s some evidence in the book that the firm was also involved in the ?renditioning? of prisoners, transporting suspects for interrogation to countries with an imperfect grasp of what is meant by human rights. Blackwater operates in a deliberately hazy area, a private company beholden to the state for its work, yet free from those legal and moral responsibilities imposed upon the state, nationally and internationally. Scahill reports that the same mirror shades, big guns and SUVs were seen tearing around New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, the contractors charged with the task of keeping order and ?confronting criminals?. If so, it is a scary development. You might hope that when the current US administration bites the dust, Blackwater might do so, too. But that would be a bit naive. The relationship between mercenary and government is now far too convenient and lucrative to be abandoned. Have Your Say: Blackwater: The Rise of the World?s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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